life skills

A key aspect of the Capital City Crew program is the foundation of life skills taught by using the SUPERCurriculum and the Red Bandanna Project. The off-ice portion of Capital City Crew includes life skills sessions through classroom instruction, interactive exercises and activities. Our SUPER & Red Bandanna Project Life Skills curriculum is designed to prepare our participants to contribute positively to the community and be caring, productive citizens in order to reach their full potential on and off the ice. We conduct 15 Life Skills Workshops by integrating our CCC Core Values. Here is a brief summary of our Core Values and Life Skills Curriculum:

CORE VALUES

Commitment

honest & integrity

Attend all CREW practices and events​Always give 100% effort

Take responsibility for your actionsBe honest and truthful in everything you doLook for opportunities to do random acts of kindness

Perseverance

sportsmanship

To succeed in hockey you have to learn from your mistakesAccept that mistakes and bad breaks will happenLook for ways to learn and move past them​Stay positive and never let yourself down

Honor the gameLearn and follow the rules of hockeyROOTS: Respect Opponents, Officials, Teammates and Yourself

teamwork

Leadership

Develop positive relationships with coaches and fellow CREW members

Be a role model for other CREW membersLook for opportunities to demonstrate positive behavior and attitude

SUPER Program

SUPER is a sports-based program that takes advantage of the clearly defined, contingency-dependent, closed environment of sport and uses it as a “training ground” for life. Sports-based life skills programs seek to cultivate positive youth development by teaching and promoting life skills in a sport context. While sport itself does not inherently promote positive youth development, positive outcomes are more likely achieved when intentionally designed and structured programs are implemented. Participants are taught to use a variety of skills to improve their athletic performance, some physical and some mental, to recognize situations both in and out of sports requiring these skills, and then to apply them in sport and non-sport settings.

The goals of the SUPER Program are that each participant leave the program with the understanding that:

1. There is a relationship between performance excellence in sport and personal excellence in life2. Mental skills can enhance both sport performance and personal performance3. It is important to set and attain goals in sport and life4. Roadblocks to goals can be overcome​​5. Effective participation in sport requires being healthy and physically fit

Red Bandanna project

The Capital City Crew leverages the Red Bandanna Project curricula and lessons for character development, social and emotional learning for young people. These lessons have been inspired by the example and spirit of Welles Remy Crowther, a 9/11 Civilian Hero known around the world as the “Man in the Red Bandanna” for his selfless, heroic actions during his final hour at the World Trade Center. Stories of other people whose actions have reflected exemplary character are shared and explored as well.

Lessons on Leadership, Caring for Others, TEAM, The Power of One, Bridging Divides, Forgiveness and Carpe Diem have been developed for schools and youth programs by a team of educators of 30 to 40 years experience in their fields, with an advisory group of educational professionals. Three of the six lead writers have written curricula for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the New Jersey Holocaust Commission and one for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC as well. Development of the Red Bandanna Project curricula was supported by the Fetzer Institute in partnership with the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust.

Thank you to the Welles Remy Crowther Trust for donating $2,500 to Capital City Crew this year!